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Now, more than ever, the teaching of Reconstruction needs to be a central component of history education in high school.

New York City Schools revealed its much-anticipated plan for increasing diversity and access in its public schools. But some critics say it doesn’t go far enough or name the true issue at hand.

A new use of the word accomplice pushed this educator to rethink her activist approaches inside and outside the classroom.

The U.S. House’s proposed health care bill sends a clear message that special education mandates aren’t on its funding priority list.

The Brown decision represents a symbol of the country we still seek to become.

When many students think of buses and desegregation, their minds instantly go to Rosa Parks and the 1954 Montgomery Bus Boycott. But the larger civil rights fight over transportation took place seven years later with the Freedom Rides.

Supporters of the scientific consensus on the human role in climate change and those who deny this consensus are ramping up their messages these days, causing a serious dilemma for science teachers. How can educators act on this teachable moment?

Today, the North Carolina legislature debates what’s being called a repeal of the controversial “bathroom bill.” But is it really a repeal? Explore this question with your students.

President Trump’s budget proposal uses the pretense of civil rights to further his school choice agenda—at the expense of research-based public school programming.

What does the rise in hate groups and hate crimes say about our American history and American democracy when all lives should matter?